HECTOR LAZO LAUREL LEDGE OLD CHURCH LANE POUND RIDGE, N. Y. POUND RIDGE 4-5655 Apartment 6-A 157 East 18th St. New York 3, N.Y. Oct. 28,1956. Dr. Ludwig von Mises 777 West End Avenue New York, N.Y. Dear Dr. von Mises : You must know of course how proud all your colleagues at the Graduate School of Business are of being on the same faculty with the author of THE ANTI-CAPITALISTIC MENTALITY. I wanted to tell you how very much Mrs. Lazo and myself have enjoyed the excerpts in UNITED STATES NEWS, and are looking forward to the complete text. We plan to get copies of the book for our married daughter and her husband, and for our son and his wife, and I am recommending it in my classes at GBA as the outstanding clarificat ion of the capitalistic system. It has occurred to me that your book should however receive a much wider distribution. It is not enough that a small element of readers accept it. It should be in the hands of every labor leader, every business manager dealing with industrial or employee relations, and every sales manager who deals with the public directly or though his more or less well-trained sales force. (*) How would you feel about permitting me, or any other writer you and the Publishers might select, to do a " popular " version in digest form, under your guidance and supervision ? Whoever did this would of necessity need to study your PLANNED CHAOS as well as SOCIALISM; and would need to have several discussions with you to get your basic philosophy and thinking thoroughly into his own mind. But I feel so strongly about the need for such a book to dispell the enormous flood of nonsense that is being written, that I thought I would write you and explore your reactions to the thought. My teaching nights this fall at GBA are Tuesday and Thursday and I have not had the pleasure of seeing you down there on those nights. Hence this letter. We are spending the winter at our apartment in New York and a meeting at your convenience could be arranged with much less difficulty than when we live in the country. Sincerely yours, Hector Lazo. (*) Such people ofcourse would, for the most part, not read an " economics" book.